Also, in terms of mellowing, measles guessed to have split from rinderpest in ~600 BC
yet in 2600 years, rinderpest never mellowed for cattle because its mortality was around 100% in ~ 2000 AD
& measles didn't seem to have mellowed for us humans in 2000yrs either
Anyway just noting the disingenuous phrasing referring to measles' cousin as "a cattle virus" to make the point that its something to be brushed off and not relevant to anything grounded in reality.
Good PR, but it's PR.
So much for unbiased evidence-based "experts"
What would be interesting would be if anyone knows if rinderpest provided systemic effects in the cattle, and thus led to long-lived immunity like measles does. Which, in my estimation, is because of the systemic effects, not because of absolute lack of transmission
@jvipondmd Dude I've walked through construction sites and never got hit with a brick, so we know paper party hats are protective.
We also asked workers repeatedly, incessantly, almost to the level of harassment, and in the end they admitted they took the party hats off in the break room
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@jvipondmd In fact, we looked at April to June 2020 where there was no brick work being done on the construction site, and there were 5500 hours of workers in paper party hats, and yet not one got hit with a brick. I have an email testifying to that, which I wrote myself, as proof /s
@jvipondmd But no, you cannot look at our records, and if you found someone who during that period got hit with a brick, they definitely got hit at home, even though we don't test bricks, and it's kind of weird because construction sites have more bricks and bricklayers than homes.
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Jennifer's great idea to make this chart, orig w/ measles, TB and COVID.
@rdumont99 kicked @JenniferKShea and I to update, @jljcolorado joined. I dumped 18 mo of studies in and we searched a few new. There are more out there.